The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced its 2020-2021 national and regional awardees for their outstanding sustainability efforts. These organizations, businesses, federal agencies, and others are conserving energy and water, reducing wasted food, and preventing waste destined for landfills.
EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge (FRC) program partners prevented about 1.2 million tons of food from entering landfills or incinerators. While FRC partners prevented food waste, our WasteWise partners diverted close to 410,000 tons of general, non-food waste and saved close to $23 million in avoided landfill fees. As part of the Federal Green Challenge (FGC) federal facilities won awards for applying practical, cost-effective measures to conserve energy, water, and other natural resources.
